PETA isn’t just another overburdened shelter. They euthanize at a massively high rate, somewhere in the high 90's IIRC. From what I’ve heard, their GOAL is euthanasia because in their minds, that’s preferable to being a pet. There are also numerous claims of animals being “Rescued” from peoples’ yards.

If you shoot a bullet with a slower muzzle velocity than the plane’s airspeed it will still leave the barrel, or rather, the barrel will leave the bullet.

That’s the idea behind those plastic covers you sometimes see. You claim it’s just a protective cover, but the idea is it glares so badly under flash that your plate doesn’t show up.

MAN-Portable Air Defense

Wait, isn’t torque the harder of the two to measure since it depends on gearing?

This was an eye-opening comment.

Nah, it was more a pre-emptive defense against “OMG JJ RUIN EVERYTHING!!”

They also don’t do much in space. AFAIK those “intakes” are for cooling fins. I'm mostly sure they aren't turbines of any sort.

That’s just a matter of preference. I think the original design looks better, but everyone has their own tastes.

I like it. It makes the back half a bit less busy, and the main body is considerably sleeker. Since there’s nothing spinning in those engines, it’s not like they need to be full circles.

Well, it is how the X-wing was originally designed, so send your angry letters to Ralph McQuarrie.

Probably because a turret assembly to move the main guns would be very heavy and large? It’s much easier to swivel a small anti-personnel laser.

no, but he is an “unpleasant asshole” if that’s how he tickles his giblets.

That wouldn’t be -you- though, that would just be a copy that had your memories. The you that planned this and got scanned would never see the other planet.

There was some work of fiction that involved that: A colony of humans raised from infancy by robots. It did not go well.

I think the “headlights” are just a reflection. Unless the car was drawn by Rob Liefeld I can’t imagine the headlights and taillights both being visible at that angle.

“...here you see we’ve put this hamster wheel into George’s 96 Tercel."

This is a bit old but I need to say my piece.

I think the point here is that there are some concerns with how this would actually work in the real world, not whether or not phoning while driving should be illegal.